(ITA - 2004 - 1a Fase)
Commentary
Human Development 1997; 40:96-101
A New Generation: New Intellectual Opportunities
James Youniss
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
1These comments on the publication of the new handbook are written from the perspective of a member of the in-between generation. In-betweeners were born about 5the time Murchison edited the first and second handbooks in the 1930s. They spent childhood watching newreels [sic] of World War II at movie houses featuring ‘cowboy’ serials on Saturday afternoons. 10Their professional education straddled two psychological eras. It began just as the ‘experimental psychology’ paradigm was ending its domination and it was completed as new alternatives were 15coming into view. (...)
Had they been born just a few years earlier, they would have been part of that powerful and long-lasting generation that entered the military during World 20War II and filled the universities immediately after the war. This unusual cohort held leadership in the discipline of psychology in general and developmental psychology, in particular, 25for several decades. (...)
Índices no canto superior esquerdo de uma palavra indicam o número da linha do texto original.
Assinale a opção que não expressa uma idéia contida no texto.
O autor dos comentários sobre o novo manual escreve da perspectiva de um membro da geração de psicólogos que se autodenominam “intermediários”.
Os “intermediários” passaram a infância assistindo a noticiários sobre a 2a Guerra Mundial.
Os “intermediários” nasceram no período entre a edição do 1o e do 2o Manuais editados por Murchison, nos anos 30.
A formação profissional dos “intermediários” deu-se entre dois períodos da Psicologia.
Na época da 2a Guerra, os cinemas exibiam filmes de cowboy para as crianças nas tardes de sábado.